I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years…

I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young age. I did organize…

— Nancy Roman

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

— Sally Ride

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

— Terry Pratchett

I got interested in astronomy at the age of 8 because I was looking at an atlas of the planets in my parents' apartment…

— Seth Shostak

“[In high school] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy…

— Allan McLeod Cormack

“In 1992 the Roman Catholic Church finally acknowledged that it had been wrong to condemn Galileo.”

— Stephen Hawking

Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

— Stephen Hawking

“People tend to over estimate my character.”

— Veronica Roth

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

— Anonymous

There was a uniqueness to the American case of slavery. 10 million people, a conservative estimate, were brought to America... hundreds of people were…

— Edward Ball

I under estimate that cheap wine

— Simphiwe

“We, of all the beings that we know of, can think. We can eat, write, build, save. We can predict, estimate, and count. We…

— Tarun Betala

“The predicted USA aurora was a bust! The solar radiation definitely arrived, as people had strange fatigue and pains in Oregon, USA on the…

— Steven Magee

She was at the beauty shop for two hours. That was only for the estimate.

— Henny Youngman

Economic theory dictates that the value of a company is basically the present value of its future profits. To estimate Facebook's value through its…

— Didier Sornette